Project Veritas has decided to take on the role of Dragon Slayer and has sued the New York Times for defamation in connection with the NYT’s coverage of the PV undercover operation to expose naked vote fraud in the Somali community in Minneapolis.
The complaint was filed yesterday in Westchester County, New York, names the NY Times and reporters Maggie Astor and Tiffany Hsu as Defendants based on reporting which called the Project Veritas operation a “disinformation campaign”, and claimed that the undercover video posted by Project Veritas confirming the allegations of its story was “deceptive”.
This defamation action arises out of the publication of a false and defamatory news story authored by Defendant Maggie Astor, a politics reporter for the New York Times, and published in both the online and print versions of The Times. The story was first published on The New York Times website on September 29, 2020 with the headline, “Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say,” repeated the same day in an abbreviated form online with the headline, “Researchers say a Project Veritas video accusing Ilhan Omar of voter fraud was a ‘coordinated disinformation campaign,’” and then published the following day in the print version of The Times with the headline, “Project Veritas Releases Misleading Video, Part of What Experts Call a Coordinated Effort.”
The causes of action in the 72-page complaint are based on New York state defamation law. There are individual cases of action which relate to stories published by the Times on September 29 and 30, 2020, as well as follow-up stories published on October 25 and 26, 2020.
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